The Arise Report - September 2019

This is an electronic version of the September newsletter that was mailed to Alabama Arise members this month.

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Alabama can lead the nation in addressing the inequities of our past

"The Alabama Arise annual meeting is my favorite day of the year," Arise executive director Robyn Hyden writes. "We’re grateful to our hosts at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, our members and the volunteers who made the day possible. And we’re looking ahead to the work to come to make this blueprint for change a reality in Alabama."

Alabama Arise members vow to renew 'untax groceries' push in 2020

Ending the state sales tax on groceries is one of the top goals on Arise’s 2020 legislative agenda. Nearly 200 Arise members picked our seven issue priorities (listed below) at the annual meeting last month in Montgomery. Click "Read More" for more information on our roadmap to a better Alabama:

Tax reform
Adequate state budgets for human services
Criminal justice debt reform
Death penalty reform
Payday and title lending reform
Public transportation
Voting rights

Medicaid expansion helps Alabama workers

Workers across Alabama would gain health security from Medicaid expansion. Our business would gain a more reliable workforce. And our economy would gain billions of federal dollars, stronger tax revenues and thousands of new health care jobs. All these gains would spell a brighter future for Alabama. It's time to expand Medicaid and make health coverage affordable for the workers we all rely on every day.

Meet the working men and women caught in Alabama's health coverage gap

It’s an uncomfortable reality that our state’s leaders must face: More than 100,000 Alabamians are working without health insurance. They work in child care, construction, food service and other vital jobs. They’re the folks who keep things going in our society.

Yet they’re trapped in the health coverage gap. As a result, many struggle with health problems that sap productivity, add household stress and get worse without timely care. And thousands more Alabama workers are stretching to buy coverage they can’t afford.

How Alabama can untax groceries and boost education

Two major drivers of Alabama’s regressive tax system are a sales tax on groceries that hurts working families and a skewed income tax break that overwhelmingly benefits wealthy people. Arise has a longstanding plan to address both problems: Eliminate the state grocery tax and end the state deduction for federal income taxes (FIT). Read more about how this proposal would increase opportunity and shared prosperity across our state.

Alabama Arise

P.O. Box 1188, Montgomery, Alabama 36101

(334) 832-9060 · [email protected]

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